Panaji (Goa) [India], February 16 (ANI): If the presence of Olympic Champions Ma Long and Chen Meng weren’t sufficient, the Chinese problem simply obtained strengthened on the upcoming World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Goa, scheduled from twenty seventh February to fifth March, with reigning ladies’s world champion and world quantity three Wang Manyu, main the listing of eight wildcards and WTT nominations launched by the industrial entity of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), the governing world physique of the game.
The highest degree of the Table Tennis event ever to be performed in India, the WTT Star Contender Goa is being hosted by the Government of Goa. The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), the mum or dad physique of the game in India, will even be the supporting accomplice of the event.
Besides Wang, who at 24 is one in all Chinese Table Tennis’ foremost abilities, one other upcoming Chinese star Wang Chuqin, an attacking and thrilling southpaw who’s the present world quantity three within the males’s rankings, has additionally acquired one of many 4 WTT nominations. The 22-year-old gained the WTT Cup Finals final 12 months moreover three different titles in a brief however spectacular profession. China is a longstanding world superpower within the sport and can now have all three of its prime gamers in each singles draw taking part.
The different two WTT nominations have been picked up by the expertise of senior German paddler Patrick Franziska within the males’s draw and Monaco’s Xiaoxin Yang within the ladies’s draw.
Four wildcards, two every within the males’s and ladies’s singles attracts have been additionally handed out. German world quantity 11 Dang Qiu and Korean world quantity 18 Jang Woojin picked up the lads’s wildcards whereas thrilling Puerto Rican Adriana Diaz and senior Portuguese paddler Fu Yu have been handed the wildcards within the ladies’s singles.
The wildcards and nominations add extra muscle to an already top-class subject. Besides the reigning Chinese Olympic Champions, the sphere additionally boasts of present world primary’s Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha, in addition to such thrilling expertise as Tomakazu Harimoto and Hina Hayata of Japan and Trul Moregard of Sweden.
The Indian problem will probably be led by icon Sharath Kamal, moreover the likes of Sathiyan Gnansekaran and Manika Batra.
It guarantees to be a deal with of excessive voltage world-class Table Tennis motion on the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor stadium come February finish. (ANI)